Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-05-12
q BILL NYE'S BLASTED PASS.
The War Between the Press and the
Raflways-A Real Estate Item.


the biting blasts of the /. G. b. BY
the /. G. b. mean to imply the Inter-
state Commission BIZ.
noticed while en- route that the new
law had stimulated travel to wonder.
full degree. On my way from the
South, where l was during the winter,
l noticed that the sluggish arteries of
trade had already begun to palpitate
and crowds of people filled the cars on
every train.
l said to myself, Congress has at
last solved this great question of
financial strngency and broken the
great dam that held capital captive. On
the Piedmont Air Line, people crushed
each other together in mad attempt
to travel On the Richmond & Dan
vile and +. Il. V. & g.. as we'll as the
L. & NJ, humanity crowded day coach
es and sleepers till the walls cracked.
AT Cincinnati l could not get Sleep
ing-car at all, and 1 had to telegraph
twcnty-four hours ahead to get one
from Chicago. Everywhere, as far as
the eye could reach, there seemed to
be wild and restless desire to get
somewhere else. Several companies
have to put on extra coaches to carry
the eager tourists
l arrived here just IN time to witness
the last moments of Northwestern
pass as its spirit took its fight. Had l
postponed my journey for single day
l would have been too late.
1t was still young. Life was before
it, Barley quarter of the span of its
life had been passed when it curled up
and expired. 1t was a cute little
thing. with an olive complexion and
large, mournful, upper-case eyes.
A few weeks ago l noticed that it
did not look well. 1t did not complain
of illness or pain, but thought de-
tccted a condition on its back. and so
l hurried home in order to DC here in
case it should expire. As soon as the
conductor looked at it and felt its pulse,
he said that he could do nothing for it.
The Interstate Commerce law is one of
those things that will have to be tried
before we can pass upon it, l presume,
though some claim that it is going to
be very difficult to pass upon it even
then. This thought occurred to me
just after the gate-keeper pushed me
back yesterday and told me to 90 and
get my ticket
then first realized what it was to be
rudely ground under the heel of cold
corporation that is devoid of heart,
devoid of soul, devoid of noble thoughts.
devoid of refined instincts, devoid of
kind impulses, devoid of milk of hui
man kindness, devoid of bowels of
compassion.
From force of habit / walked up to
the gate with joyous nod and the old
password, only to be coldly repulsed
by the hired bouncer of this heartless,
soulless, impulseless. milkless and
bowelless corporation.
But the railroads will get the worst
of it, for know that travel on some of
the lines has fallen off since April /.
| can see it already. l have fallen off
myself since the first of the month and
others will do the same.
That is not all. A friend of mine
who runs paper, and whose pass got
the hollow horn on Friday last, says
that his columns are now open to
those who wish to complain of the
management of this road. He states
that the first hot box will be duly
chrOnicled, and that he will no longer
close his eyes to the wrongs we have
heretofore suffered at the hands of this
unjust and ruthless vampire that has
been sapping the very foundation of
our institutions and smearing its long.
dark trail with the remnants of our
best mlch cows, reluctantly paying for
them the price set at the tail of an I'M
just and enervating trial by corrupt,
venal and dwelling jury.
He says that "the tine has come for
the press to arise and assert ITSELF"
and when the train runs off the track
and kills lot of people who have led
exemplary lives, his paper will here
after tell why and how it was done.
Heretofore he has not had sufficient
help in the office. he claims. and he
frequently ran short of type, but now
he is goingto give all the particulars of
the first smash-up that occurs on the
road if the paper falls into the relent-
less nav of sheritf's sale on the fol-
lowing week.
/ asked railroad official of st. Paul
Yesterday what effect the new law
would have on the freight rates in the
Northwest, and he said he thought
they would not be much higher than
they were before! This announcement
will fall like healing balm on the sore
place where the shippers annual pass
was ruthlessly torn from his bleeding
heart last week.
The real estate boom along the
shores of Lake Superior still continues.
1t is equal to the palmy days of MIN
ing speculation in the Far West The
boom, in fact, extends from Ashland to
Washburn. West Superior and Dulath,
through Minneapolis, St. Paul, Omaha
and Kansas City to FL Paso. Iconsider
it good time to sell, and shall dispose
of my Lake Superior property by wire
tomorrow. do every thing can by
wire now. Last year generally went
in person and transacted my business.
Three years ago. however. l bought
| n block by wire in Dakota town, in
tending TO sell it as soon as l could
double my money on 1t, but the agent
failed to sell until got irritated and
wrote him short, crisp letter. asking
him in scathing terms, why he did not
dispose of the lots and remit
He replied that he had tried to do as
had instructed him, but had been I'M
able to sell them at an, price, although
| the town itself was growing in the